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Job Title:    Monitoring &
Results Measurement Officer

Organisation: Agricultural
Business Initiative (aBi) Trust

Duty Station: 
Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Chief
Operating Officer – Corporate Services

About US:

The Agricultural
Business Initiative (aBi) Trust is supporting agribusiness development in the
private sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s
Competitiveness and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). The Trust is a
multi-donor entity jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark and Uganda.
The mandate of aBi Trust is to support the private sector actors to increase
their contribution to the agricultural sector by increasing land and labour
productivity, and market competitiveness thereby contributing to poverty
reduction through economic growth, wealth, and employment creation.

Job Summary:  The role of the Monitoring & Results
Measurement (MRM) Officer is to support the strengthening and implementation of
monitoring & evaluation and knowledge management systems to enhance
planning, portfolio performance, impact and learning, quality control and
accountability at various levels.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

As part of the RMRD
team contribute towards the development of funding windows (FWs), project pipelines,
and risk management

• Contributing to the design, review and appraisal of FWs and projects
  by collecting, analyzing and applying lessons learned and evidence in
  appraisal, development and review of FWs, project plans and risk
  management strategies
• Contributing to the design of results monitoring and measurement
  components of projects by incorporating results chains and performance
  indicators in each project according to DCED standards
• Contributing to the development of the aBi business plan and annual
  work plans and budgets specifically ensuring that program teams integrate
  a well-defined theory of change, results chain, and measurement plan in
  their plans

To lead in the
monitoring and evaluation effort of aBi projects, and provide technical advice
on how to address identified performance gaps

• Setting up systems and procedures for ongoing monitoring and results
  measurement in each project, and ensuring compliance with aBi and DCED
  standards
• Managing the partner monitoring process by ensuring regular
  monitoring and reviews, compiling and analysing the collected data in
  order to identify lessons learnt and any gaps in aBi knowledge
• Supporting ICT and program teams to implement the Grant Management
  System (GMS), and ensuring compliance with aBi and DCED standards

Provide partners
and aBi staff technical advice and capacity building to carry out and use
monitoring, evaluation, research and learning to improve performance

• Developing and implementing a capacity building plan for staff and
  partners on M&E and related needs identified
• Delivering capacity building (training, TA, systems) to staff and
  partners regarding reporting, results measurement, data collection and
  DCED standards and according to identified needs
• Participating as a member of risk management and compliance teams,
  and ensuring that risk related to results measurement and performance
  management is addressed effectively at all levels
• Ensuring accountability by reviewing and assessing the quality of
  data and results achieved, and compliance with accountability and
  reporting requirements
• Establishing a resource bank for up- to-date tools, training
  materials, other capacity building products, and a data base of experts;
  and ensuring the resources are used to support partners

Generate and
disseminate evidence and knowledge to support effective learning,
decision-making and external communication

• Supporting the design and implementation of a knowledge management
  system
• Supporting implementation of baselines, evaluations, reviews and
  research; participating in preparation of analytical reports and
  documentation of lessons learnt and best practices; facilitating sharing
  across the organisation and with partners; and ensuring their utilization
• Developing learning products and disseminating them to staff,
  partners and other targeted users

To provide
administrative support to staff and clients

• Managing schedules, meetings, customer support, audits, external
  reviews, visits, etc
• Supervising consultants, staff and other clients

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in agribusiness
  management, agricultural finance, quantitative economics, statistics,
  development studies or a related field
• Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, Program Planning and
  Management, or other field related to M&E
• Five years of post-graduation M&E experience in designing and
  implementing grant projects in agribusiness in Uganda
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of grant projects in
  agricultural finance programs is an added advantage
• 5 years’ experience in designing and conducting project baselines,
  evaluations and research studies
• Demonstrable experience in using grant management information
  systems (MIS)
• 5 years demonstrable experience in providing capacity building
  support to partners in delivery of M&E functions
• Demonstrated experience in application of SPSS, STATA, or other
  statistical software
• Demonstrated experience in report writing (supervised or authored at
  least 3 evaluation reports in the last 5 years)

How to Apply:

Please send your
application to vacancy@abi.co.ug clearly indicating the position title in the
email subject line. Applications shouldn’t be more than 4MB. 

Deadline: 18^th October 2019 by 5:00pm. 

Please note that
only successful candidates will be contacted. Canvassing will lead to
disqualification. Hardcopy applications will not be accepted.

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